12(30)
gender gap is particularly large among the children with respect to sickness
benefit; daughters have on average twice as many days with sickness
benefit as sons (18 and 7, respectively). The gender gap with respect to
disability pensions is not as large; the daughters have on average 11 days
per year while the sons have on average 8 days per year. Among the
parents, the mothers have more days with sickness benefit but there is no
gender gap with respect to disability pensions.
We also present the share with more than 365 days of sickness benefit plus
disability pensions per year, that is, the share that has two different kinds
of compensation at the same time, both on a part-time basis. This share is
around 1 per cent in all the groups, which indicates that our measure of
sickness absence reflects what we intend to capture, namely the number
of days’ absence due to sickness rather than the number of types of
compensation.
Table 1.
Descriptive statistics of the study population
Mean Median Std dev. Min.
Max.
Sons:
Age in 2008
34.05
34.00
1.40 32
36
Labour income
229 473 233 143 131 632
0 5 447 011
Days with s.b.
7.24
0.00
27.86
0
365
Days with d.p.
8.01
0.00
49.91
0
365
Days with s.b. and d.p.
15.14
0.00
59.28
0
365
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>365 days
0.00
0.00
0.07
0
1
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>0
0.25
0.00
0.43
0
1
Share without labour
income
0.04
0.00
0.19
0
1
Mothers:
Age in 1991
43.59
43.00
4.90 29
65
Labour income
76 943
77 697
46 301
0 641 199
Days with s.b.
14.29
0.00
40.76
0
365
Days with d.p.
8.98
0.00
48.01
0
365
Days with s.b. and d.p.
22.69
0.00
66.98
0
365
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>365 days
0.01
0.00
0.09
0
1
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>0
0.44
0.00
0.50
0
1
Share without labour
income
0.04
0.00
0.20
0
1
Fathers:
Age in 1991
46.17
46.00
5.35 31
65
Labour income
135 520 134 985
85 168
0 7 745 888
Days with s.b.
10.81
0.00
34.90
0
365
Days with d.p.
8.82
0.00
48.65
0
365
Days with s.b. and d.p.
19.13
0.00
63.63
0
365
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>365 days
0.01
0.00
0.09
0
1
Share having days with
s.b. and d.p.>0
0.36
0.00
0.48
0
1
Share without labour
income
0.05
0.00
0.21
0
1
